Gay rights activists are campaigning to have the words ‘husband’ and ‘wife’ erased from the statute book as part of a bill to legalise same-sex marriage. Pressure group Stonewall yesterday released a draft bill, intended as a ‘model’ for the Marriage Bill due later this year, calling for spouses to be known as ‘parties to a marriage’ to avoid confusion for homosexual couples. The move provoked protests from critics, who say the aim of a new law would be to destroy the traditional understanding of marriage.
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February 18th, 2012
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February 18th, 2012Town hall chiefs have been handed the power to hold prayers at the start of council meetings in defiance of the courts. Local Government Secretary Eric Pickles yesterday signed an order giving local authorities the right to maintain the centuries-old tradition. He stepped in after the High Court last week backed a controversial campaign to abolish acts of worship during town hall meetings.
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February 18th, 2012Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that despite some promising developments, Christians in Turkey continue to suffer attacks from private citizens, discrimination by lower-level government officials and vilification in both school textbooks and news media, according to a study by a Protestant group.
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February 18th, 2012It could take years to deport radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, even if the UK does reach an agreement with officials from Jordan.
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February 17th, 2012Campaigners are to form an all new party parliamentary group (APPG) to focus on protecting the subject amid fears it is being sidelined after being omitted from the list of subjects recognised by the Government’s news English Baccalaureate.
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February 17th, 2012MPs have set up a new group to safeguard the teaching of religious education to pupils in England.
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February 17th, 2012What would Britain do without the Equality and Human Rights Commission? I imagine it would literally collapse within five years and the country would be plunged into a generation-long civil war if we didn’t continue to hand over large amounts of money to Trevor Phillips and co.
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February 17th, 2012This week Sayeeda Warsi, the first woman Muslim Cabinet Minister, stepped on to the global stage with a speech at the Vatican about “militant secularisation”. But first she spoke to Tablet editor Catherine Pepinster about faith in the public square and why she gets on with Catholics.
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February 17th, 2012Anyone challenging the homosexualist agenda in public in Sweden can be sent to prison, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that this does not constitute any violation of rights. In 2004, the Swedish government charged a group of pamphleteers with “agitation against a national or ethnic group,” a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 2 years in prison.
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February 17th, 2012The Rowan County Commissioners open every meeting with a prayer. Vice-Chairman Carl Ford says it's been that way since he can remember.